Watch John Oliver Take MSNBC Blowhard Chris Matthews To The Woodshed On The ‘Daily Show’

Last night’s Daily Show featured another “Can’t you at least wait until Jon Stewart gets back” segment that saw fill-in host John Oliver lose a little slice of his sanity over ridiculously early media hype about the 2016 presidential election. Oliver especially took issue with MSNBC hot air balloon extraordinaire Chris Matthews, who is already convinced that the GOP nomination will go to loopy Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.

In a Hardball clip played by Oliver, Matthews boasts, “I predict the hard right is going to take over the Republican Party in 2016 and the nomination is going to Rand Paul. You watch. This is what I do for a living.”

Too bad for Matthews, the Daily Show has a staff that is much better at what they do for a living — which is to dig up clips of people like Matthews being impossibly wrong about everything — than he is at what he does for a living.

I was watching an interview Oliver did with Charlie Rose about the inner workings of The Daily Show and his current standing. It was very insightful. It shows just how much respect Oliver has for Jon Stewart.

They actually touched on this episode mentioning how there are moments when people have foot-in-mouth disease like Chris Matthews and they thank the heavens when they find a clip that pairs so well with the contradiction.

Right, cause saying things that are absolutely false is handing someone their ass. The hell was his proposed “if you’re making $30k a year and health care is $15k a year, people can’t afford that” thing? Health insurance is not $15k a year as it stands, and obamacare is predicted to bring rates down. You can’t argue with someone who doesn’t exist in reality.

This wasn’t the first time he took down Matthews for his predictions. He was part of a clip early on with a few other anchors who said it was money in the bank that Hilary was going to win the Primaries for the ’08 election.

Jon Stewart already did it, with a vengeance. And when guys like Matthews are predicting, it is basically the same as when Jennifer Rubin reinvents statistics: No one minds if you are stupid, but just STFU.